yeah. and when ideas are so obviously WRONG why we gotta read about em first?
like i hate liberalism and social contract theory. they commit oral sodomy, really poorly too.
no, i didn't read locke very carefully that one time we were supposed to. no, i only ever skimmed Weber. know why? because their ideas are boring, their writing is boring, and Locke spent most of his time talking about how important eating some kinds of fruit and not others and having leaky shoes for your children was.
so we've done the discursive construction thing, we've done the social construction thing, it's been DONE. do we really need to go back and explain WHY the free market is fictive? do we really need to go back and explain WHY there are no perfect original forms on the far side of language?
OVER!
sorry plato, but you're a fascist douche who's been dead 2000 years. we have newer, more interesting ways of thinking about things now. like not-slavery. i particularly like that one. and that women are people. that's a nice one too. you're only important because people KEEP FUCKING TALKING ABOUT YOU. just like all them enlightenment stiffs.
so let's study how people use you as an idea, rather than pretending that you as a person still matters.
and that's my really shallow gut reaction to that.
oh, and come and visit already, you damned faerie!
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Date: 2005-11-10 01:53 pm (UTC)like i hate liberalism and social contract theory. they commit oral sodomy, really poorly too.
no, i didn't read locke very carefully that one time we were supposed to. no, i only ever skimmed Weber. know why? because their ideas are boring, their writing is boring, and Locke spent most of his time talking about how important eating some kinds of fruit and not others and having leaky shoes for your children was.
so we've done the discursive construction thing, we've done the social construction thing, it's been DONE. do we really need to go back and explain WHY the free market is fictive? do we really need to go back and explain WHY there are no perfect original forms on the far side of language?
OVER!
sorry plato, but you're a fascist douche who's been dead 2000 years. we have newer, more interesting ways of thinking about things now. like not-slavery. i particularly like that one. and that women are people. that's a nice one too. you're only important because people KEEP FUCKING TALKING ABOUT YOU. just like all them enlightenment stiffs.
so let's study how people use you as an idea, rather than pretending that you as a person still matters.
and that's my really shallow gut reaction to that.
oh, and come and visit already, you damned faerie!
hearts and kisses,
beatrix